Welcome to the first installment of Hell Mail, in which the (equally traumatized) After Rapture Party listeners write into the show with wild church stories of their own! Anonymous emailers regale us with tales featuring "interesting" characters at church (who most certainly shouldn't be around children), scrubbing grout to become godlier gals, and a certain pastor who put a ring on a woman two decades his junior (from his own congregation!). Erin discusses how she was invited to Mormon prom twice, Tori continues to hold a grudge against her college anthropology professor, and "It's a Hard Knock Life" gets a much-needed remix.

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Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Erin Cholakian⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tori Chancellor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Composer: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jimmy Marino⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Artist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Anna Brown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Producer: Margaret Borchert

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Erin & Tori finish icing the cake that is Second Chance, which comes too little too late since Vicki is starting her 7-year rapture diet (staying skinny for God is priority numero uno, the authors have led us to believe). Judd becomes a father, Ryan is 12, and Lionel contemplates how morgues work as the group works to stay under the radar (ACAB) and figure out how to move forward in a world without school. To wrap out, Goodreads reviews of Book 2 reflect Erin & Tori’s screams into the void as they scrutinize their 40-book commitment. 

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Producer: Margaret Borchert

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LEFT BEHIND: THE KIDS by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

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Erin & Tori climb aboard the After Rapture Party express to discuss the second installment in Left Behind: The Kids. Everybody deserves a second chance (book title mention!), and we're hoping our protagonists don't need a third... or fifth.. or seventh and final chance. Erin & Tori walk through moments of perfectly normal teen self-flagellation, slow-speed car parking, and little boy activities as depicted in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001). Once again, we take it all the way back to early aughts for some milky, peanut-y confessions in which the child versions of our hosts throw things that should not be thrown.

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Producer: Margaret Borchert

LEFT BEHIND: THE KIDS by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

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Listen to Erin & Tori grow fatigued in real time as they wrap up the second half of The Vanishings, in which the authors extensively & dramatically draw out an event that happens in the blink of an eye. Runaway planes, tankers, and limos wreck our teen protagonists' lives and they must find solace with the one adult who definitely doesn't have any weird intentions: Pastor Bruce Barnes. Erin & Tori (or rather, fictional news media) cover about 16 specific rapture moments and debate the "age of sentience" (will 8-year-olds be eligible to fight in the war against the Antichrist?). This week's episode ends with some reviews that reflect the creative frustration we're all feeling as we head into the post-rapture blues.

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Hosts: ⁠⁠Erin Cholakian⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Tori Chancellor⁠⁠

Composer: ⁠⁠Jimmy Marino⁠⁠

Artist: ⁠⁠Anna Brown⁠⁠

Producer: Margaret Borchert

LEFT BEHIND: THE KIDS by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

In the opening installation of what's shaping up to be quite a long marathon, Erin & Tori recap the first half of The Vanishings! We meet the four teens we're following along this 40 book journey: Judd the runaway, Vicki the rebel, Lionel the liar, and Ryan the skeptic. Aided by the literary world's most clunky exposition, we learn all about why these teens denied God and where we find them right before... the vanishings (book title mention!). We cap out with this week's confessions, which include stories about lying and cheating from the kid versions of Erin & Tori.

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Hosts: ⁠Erin Cholakian⁠ & ⁠Tori Chancellor⁠

Composer: ⁠Jimmy Marino⁠

Artist: ⁠Anna Brown⁠

Producer: Margaret Borchert

LEFT BEHIND: THE KIDS by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Who are Erin & Tori, and why are they traumatized? What exactly is the Rapture, and why were two writers compelled to author pseudo-Christian literature about teens finding God and fighting the Antichrist? Just how many books did you say there were in LEFT BEHIND: THE KIDS? Erin & Tori answer all of these questions (as well as questions you probably didn't care to know the answers to) in this introductory episode of the After Rapture Party podcast!

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Hosts: Erin Cholakian & Tori Chancellor

Composer: Jimmy Marino

Artist: Anna Brown

Producer: Margaret Borchert

LEFT BEHIND: THE KIDS by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Calling all of God's unchosen sinners: the After Rapture Party Podcast hits your feed on January 31, 2024!